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Skimm for April 16th Skimmed while munching on matzah. The Story: 10% of votes in Ecuadorian elections to be recount in light of fraud claims What happened: The results from April 2nd’s election saw conservative opposition leader, and former banker, Guillermo…
The Left Turn
In the article, “Latin America’s ‘Left Turn,’” Steven Levitsky and Kenneth Roberts explore the roots of the spread and success of Left-leaning political parties in Latin America in the late 1990s and early 2000’s. The authors credit two economic events,…
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) as a model for international aid
One of the Latin American innovations touched upon by Smith and Sells in their chapter “State Capacity and Policy Performance” is “conditional cash transfer” or CCT. Smith and Sells credit CCTs with playing an important role in poverty alleviation in…
Border Wall Blues: How Trump’s Attacks on Free Trade May Backfire
The United States has been an incredibly influential actor in Latin American politics ever since they took Texas from Mexico in the 1830s. In the century and a half after the U.S. would periodically lend their support to certain leaders…
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